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From:   Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:07:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SPDX identifiers
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:45 AM Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 15:01 +0200, yegorslists@googlemail.com wrote:
> > From: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
> >
> > Software Package Data Exchange identifiers help to detect source file
> > licenses and hence simplify the FOSS compliance process.
>
> Well that's nice and all, but it's also wrong.
>
> You haven't included any documentation that says what the SPDX
> identifier, and specifically the "ISC" tag means in the context of the
> project, and it's not even the same license text as on spdx.org.

What about such definition?

SPDX short-form identifiers provide information about licenses that
apply to the source file.

As for the exact license I wasn't sure myself. Buildroot identifies it
as ISC [1]. How do you define its license in SPDX terms?

[1] https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/tree/package/iw/iw.mk

Yegor